Grasping Shadows

Grasping Shadows
Author: William Sharpe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0190675276

Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to darkness and light.

Shadow of the Pyramid

Shadow of the Pyramid
Author: Louis Puster, 3rd
Publisher: Radioactive Press
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0982985231

The Great Obsidian Pyramid is a silent deity looming over the city that is home to its children, Shatter. In the shadow of the Pyramid, a nation of slaves serves their ancient master without question. The time has come, however, for the Pyramid's priests, the Mari'Andi to choose a new Scion of their god.This new Scion will undertake a quest that tests his mind, his body, and his very soul. He begins his journey a slave. Who will he be in the end?Threads of Ukumog is a novella and short story collection that gives readers tiny glimpses into the secret places that live inside the Saga of Ukumog dark fantasy novel series.

Dark Hunters

Dark Hunters
Author: Greg Farshtey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780439828031

The Dark Hunters stand in direct opposition to the Toa. But who are they? Where did they come from? And who--or what--motivates them? This guide provides an inside look at the villains of the Bionicle world. Full color.

The Shadow Stealer

The Shadow Stealer
Author: Jane B. Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1996
Genre: Shades and shadows
ISBN: 9780590502054

Shadow's Reign

Shadow's Reign
Author: Joseph J. Capriccioso
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-02-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1469168650

Hiding in the dark comes your nightmare given form. The curse, the hatred, a bad luck that storms. Heartless and loathing his rage will plunder. First comes the Winds and then the thunder. Evil is never seen for it alters your life. A Guardian Angel tries to make it just right. Gather the strength to fight the pain. Only you can survive through Shadows Reign.

Shadow's Soul: A Dark Urban Fantasy Paranormal Romance

Shadow's Soul: A Dark Urban Fantasy Paranormal Romance
Author: Jami Gray
Publisher: Celtic Moon Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2018-11-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948884186

Come, step into the shadows with Jami Gray and discover this fantastic paranormal, action-packed, dark urban fantasy series that will keep you reading long into the night. Her assignment was simple, keep one man safe... Hunting monsters is Raine McCord’s specialty, so when she’s assigned to play bodyguard to Cheveyo, the head Magi of the Northwest Kyn, she figures it will be a relatively easy undertaking. It’s not like they were walking naked into the demon realm, right? It was just a straight-forward consult with the leaders of the Southwest Kyn. Unfortunately, the task shifts from a cakewalk into a nightmare when Cheveyo is kidnapped and Raine is left for dead by one of the Kyn’s most feared creatures, a Soul Stealer. Not only is Raine’s confidence as a warrior is shattered by the Stealer’s nearly lethal attack but her already unpredictable magic is left with new scars. To heal her mind and spirit will require help from the one man who can touch her soul, Witch-Fey warrior, Gavin Durand. To unravel an old vendetta’s sadistic magic and rescue Cheveyo, Raine must face her stormy relationship with Gavin and embrace their ever-evolving magic. Can Raine and Gavin find their way to tear apart the complex web of secrets and hidden vendettas haunting the Southwest Kyn and expose unsettling new truths that threaten their very existence before it’s too late? SHADOW’S SOUL is the second novel in the complete series the Kyn Kronicles, a mix of dark urban fantasy and paranormal romance that treads the edge of danger. This spellbinding series is meant to be read with the lights on and in order. Fans of JT Lucas, KF Breene, and Shannon Mayer, agree that this vivid paranormal action-packed series is not to be missed.

Stealer of Flesh

Stealer of Flesh
Author: William King
Publisher: Typhon Press
Total Pages: 214
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"The King of High Adventure," Starlog "Immediately convincing, classically brooding," Steve Tompkins, TheCimmerian.com To the world at large, he is a mercenary and assassin, a brutal killer with a deadly blade. In reality Kormak is a Guardian, one of an ancient order sworn to protect humanity from the servants of the gathering darkness. Kormak is a sword and sorcery hero in the tradition of Conan, Solomon Kane and Druss the Legend, a driven man with a mission to hunt down the ancient demons who slaughtered his family. His fast-paced, action-packed adventures take him from one end of his richly detailed fantasy world to the other. STEALER OF FLESH The Ghul are the Stealers of Flesh, an ancient race of demons who possess the bodies of humans to work great evil. Now one of them has been freed from its ancient prison using Kormak's own dwarf-forged sword and the Guardian must pursue it to a haunted city on the edge of the world to end its reign of terror. Stealer of Flesh contains four-linked novelettes that tell the epic tale of Kormak's hunt for a prince of demons. In it he encounters a conspiracy of demented mages, an army of werewolves, Orcish blademasters and a beautiful alchemist and her insane poet brother. ABOUT THE SERIES Each book in the Kormak series is a standalone adventure. They can be read in any order but build into an epic picture of the career of the world’s greatest monster hunter. So far the series consists of the following books. Stealer of Flesh Defiler of Tombs Weaver of Shadow City of Strife Taker of Skulls Ocean of Fear

All Signs Point to Hell Volume Four

All Signs Point to Hell Volume Four
Author: Kylie Rae
Publisher: Kylie Rae
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ten eerie and mysterious tales to make you question your sanity. From a teenage boy ensnared by a shadow creature to a woman revisiting her childhood mistake when her imaginary friend returns, these stories will send shivers down your spine. This collection of dark stories invite you to explore the thin boundary between the known and the supernatural. Are you ready to unlock the secrets within?

Zac and the Dream Stealers

Zac and the Dream Stealers
Author: Ross MacKenzie
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545508894

It's up to one boy to take back the night!Zac can't sleep. And neither can anyone else. A bunch of bad dreams keeps robbing the whole wide-awake world of rest, and one night as the clock strikes twelve, Zac is torn from his own not-so-sweet slumber to be tossed-and-turned into a strange, surreal realm. Nocturne, this land is called, and its frightening nightmares are a sign that a nasty band of dream stealers is seizing control. Zac won't rest -- he CAN'T rest -- until he finds a way to stop these silver-skulled "insomaniacs" and take back the night!If he doesn't, you might never sleep again.A big idea made beautifully simple, about the purest, most universal form of magic: dreams.

Revelation Space

Revelation Space
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316462438

This highly acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself . . . Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason, and if that reason is uncovered, the universe and reality itself could be irrevocably altered . . . "[A] tour de force... Ravishingly inventive." -- Publishers Weekly